VAuroch comments on Decoherence - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 April 2008 06:41AM

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Comment author: VAuroch 18 November 2013 01:21:11AM -1 points [-]

I don't know what metric (method of measuring distance) you use for configuration space. But assume it's the standard, familiar Euclidean distance metric. Then if you have one particle in two blobs separated by 1 unit, it's 1 unit distant. If you have two, it's now separated by 1 unit along each of two axes, so it's sqrt(2) distant. For N particles in two blobs, the blobs are sqrt(N) distant.